Nicolas Maillot

Amadeus IT Group

Sophia Antipolis, France

(Amadeus is a leading provider of travel technology for the Air, Rail, Hotel, Car and Cruise industries. Half a billion travel searches are processed every day in its data center)

Research Engineer (Since May 2010)

• Member of the Operational Research and Innovation Division. Working on search, caching and data mining/machine learning problems.

 

Software Engineer (from Jan. 2007 to May 2010)

• Hotel Platform Activation:
  development of Python scripts to handle data migration from the legacy system to the re-engineered backend solution running on GNU/Linux. Maintenance of non-regression tests. Participation to the production cutover.
• Hotel search engine:
  Design, implementation, and planning. In-memory and highly-optimized caching solution. Cutting-edge search and synchronization algorithmic. Database Tuning. This solution enables innovative end-user applications like real-time hotel search on maps.
• Management of one internship: “Event-Driven Travel Search on Social Networks”.
• One patent filed.
• Trainings: Advanced C++, Multithreading, Design Patterns, Oracle Optimization, Communication skills.
• Tech. Environment: C++, Oracle, MySQL, Python, Perl, PHP, Linux, Cruisecontrol, UML, CVS, Visual Studio, Valgrind, Memcached.

 

Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R)

Singapore

Research Fellow

• Conception and implementation of a multimedia (text+image) information retrieval system.
• Participation to the international ImageCLEF competition. Result : 1st / 12.
• Conception and implementation of an object recognition system. Integration in a client/server architecture. Application : search for touristic information from monument images captured by mobile phones (Snap2tell).
• Management of four internships.
• Consulting for a Merge and Acquisition Company: Identification of innovative start-ups in the domain of intelligent video-surveillance.
• Tech. Environment: C++, Java (J2ME), Bash, UML, CVS

 

INRIA

Sophia Antipolis, France

(French National Institute for Computer Science)

Ph.D. Candidate

• Conception and implementation of a semantic image interpretation platform. Based on image processing, machine learning, and reasoning techniques.
• Application: Search engine able to detect a set of predefined objects (e.g. aircrafts, ships) in large image databases. Integrated in Kinomai solutions.
• Publications in several international conferences and journals.
• Management of two internships.
• Tech. Environment: C++, Java, Bash, Python, UML, Design Patterns, Matlab, Linux, CVS

Research Intern (from Feb. 2002 to Sept. 2002)

• Knowledge Acquisition Tool for 3D Object Recognition (Ontovis). Application: pollen grain recognition for allergy prevention.
• Tech. Environment: Solaris, Java, Swing, UML, XML (RDF, OWL)

 

University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis

Sophia Antipolis, France

Teaching Assistant

• Technical Institute of Networking and Telecommunications (IUT) :
  Introduction to JAVA (98h), System Programming in C (21h)
• School of Computing (ESSI) :
  Object Oriented Design and Programming in C++ (48h)

 

CETMEF

Compiègne, France

(French Maritime and Fluvial Technical Research Center)

Software Engineer Intern

• Integration of a boat trajectory simulator in a distributed environment (Java/Corba).
• Development of a graphical user interface and design of load-balancing mechanisms.
• Application: accident prevention in harbours.
• Tech. Environment: Java, Swing, threads, CORBA, Linux, CVS

 

Hexanet

Reims, France

(Internet Service Provider)

Web Developer

• Conception and implementation of an information portal related to the city of Reims.
• Tech. Environment : Linux, FreeBSD, Apache, PHP, MySQL

 

ThyssenKrupp

Reims, France

Consultant

• Conception, implementation and deployment of an intranet application for tailored product pricing.
• Tech. Environment: Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL